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Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

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Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

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Summary

Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phases: c. 1898 and c. 1900. In the 1940s, it was converted to cigar production.
Survey number: HAER AL-184
Building/structure dates: ca. 1898 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: after. 1940- before. 1949 Subsequent Work

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Date

1900
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Praray, Charles A, M
Estelle Cotton Mills
Sunset Textile Mill
Rabell Manufacturing
Lewis Cigar Manufacturing Company
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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